Harry Reid Blasts “Hate and Bigotry” of President-Elect Trump

by Don Irvineon November 11, 2016

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took advantage today of the fact that he won’t be in office next year having to deal with President Trump, by blasting the future leader of the free world in a statement posted on his website:

“I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.

“I have heard more stories in the past 48 hours of Americans living in fear of their own government and their fellow Americans than I can remember hearing in five decades in politics. Hispanic Americans who fear their families will be torn apart, African Americans being heckled on the street, Muslim Americans afraid to wear a headscarf, gay and lesbian couples having slurs hurled at them and feeling afraid to walk down the street holding hands. American children waking up in the middle of the night crying, terrified that Trump will take their parents away. Young girls unable to understand why a man who brags about sexually assaulting women has been elected president.

“I have a large family. I have one daughter and twelve granddaughters. The texts, emails and phone calls I have received from them have been filled with fear – fear for themselves, fear for their Hispanic and African American friends, for their Muslim and Jewish friends, for their LBGT friends, for their Asian friends. I’ve felt their tears and I’ve felt their fear.

“We as a nation must find a way to move forward without consigning those who Trump has threatened to the shadows. Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them. Every news piece that breathlessly obsesses over inauguration preparations compounds their fear by normalizing a man who has threatened to tear families apart, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women and who has directed crowds of thousands to intimidate reporters and assault African Americans. Their fear is legitimate and we must refuse to let it fall through the cracks between the fluff pieces.

“If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate. Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try.

“If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately.”

The only hate I’m seeing right now is the hate coming from the people who are protesting Trump’s victory and rioting in several cities around the country. Funny, but I don’t remember conservatives reacting like this when Barack Obama was elected.

Sen. Reid also seems to have forgotten that according to the Constitution of the United States, presidents are elected not based on the popular vote, but by the Electoral College. This process has served us well for over 200 years, and Reid has been perfectly fine with it until now. But not this time, since his candidate lost an election she was expected to win handily.

In making this statement at a time when emotions are raw from the election, Reid has shown just how clueless and classless he really is.